My name is Ben Chenoweth, and I'm currently a teacher at Donvale Christian College, in Melbourne, Australia. I've worked overseas with Wycliffe Bible Translators, and in Australia as a secondary and tertiary teacher. (I was the Educational Designer / eLearning Coordinator at Melbourne School of Theology for four years, and taught at Eastern College for some of that time.)
My main interests are music, writing, theology and various combinations of those. I have a number of other interests, including reading, crosswords (especially cryptics and metas), and computer games. I also enjoy programming. My About Me website (https://www.ephesusscroll.com/about) was put together as an HTML/CSS demonstration for my Year 10 Computing class. Another interesting programming project is my EPUB Metadata Editor (an open-source project on GitHub).
It's time to get meta! I'm not going to say any more, except the answer to the meta is appropriately meta. Answer and explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=90878#p90878
From Wikipedia: "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two…
Here's a relatively straight-forward meta for you, with one potential wrinkle. The answer to the meta is a six word phrase that is something you can't do, as illustrated by the grid. But because you have to enter a phrase, you have to get it letter…
I had a lot of trouble turning this meta idea into a workable grid. I tried a few different grid arrangements, until I arrived at this one. There might still be some challenging entries here, but I think I've provided you with enough info in the…
It's time to go fishing! Can you collect your fishing gear, get out to sea, and then bring to the surface the fish that is hiding among the twisty seaweed of the grid? But be careful: don't necessarily accept the first thing that presents itself…
Don't you just love how some sounds become words in their own right? I do. This puzzle is a tribute (of sorts!) to onomatopoeia. Hope you enjoy working towards the answer to the meta, which is a play. Answer and explanation here: https://www.xword…
This puzzle came to me as I tried to fall asleep one night. This sort of thing has happened before, and when I get up the next morning to construct the grid I very quickly discover that what my sleep-deprived brain thought would work, doesn't in fact…
There is not really much I can say about this puzzle. Just dive on in, complete the grid, and then hopefully you will then be able to find the answer to the meta, which is a book character - but maybe not the first one you might think of! Answer and…
This crossword is a response to Matt Gaffney's recent "A City of Puzzles". It has to be said that metas can be rather US-centric, which often means Internet research for those of us without the requisite general knowledge. In my attempts to solve "A…
Yet another meta puzzle that was inspired by my failed attempts to solve someone else's meta! Hope you enjoy this puzzle, as you seek the answer to the meta which is what you need to get from one side of the grid to the other. Answer and explanation:…